foreign language film

  • For those of you who have the Swedish vampire film Let the Right One In coming up in your Netflix queues, you might want to know that the current DVD release has dumbed-down and sometimes inaccurate subtitles. Future pressings will have the original subtitles used in the theatrical release. This information came about a week late for me, although I still found the film to be subtle and excellent. (14) #
    3/31/2009
  • AICN's Harry Knowles, whose favorite movie of 2008 is Let the Right One In -- a Swedish film -- thinks that the rules for the Best Foreign Language Film Academy Award are broken (and I agree):
    [B]ecause its country of origin didn't offer it up as the film representing its country, it will not even be considered for BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM, which at the very least... it is. This is why that award in the Academy Awards is broken. When you depend upon a host nation to offer up a film for consideration for BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM, you are forced to consider only the films that the nation in question feels artistically represent their country. As a result, films critical of their current country's policies and politics - won't be offered up.
    I haven't seen LTROI yet, but I've heard excellent things. (2) #
    1/13/2009
  • The voting is in and an ordered list of the 100 best foreign-language films has been compiled. Jean Renoir's The Rules of the Game -- which I saw for the first time last year, and loved -- takes the number one spot. I've seen only 12 of the top 25, so I've got my work cut out. (Damn you, French New Wave!) (1) #
    9/21/2007
  • The 121 122 best foreign language films, as chosen by a variety of critics, bloggers, and professors. The list will eventually be culled down to the top 25. I've seen 39 of them, and want to see most of the rest. (6) #
    8/21/2007
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